I forgot to mention in my earlier post that the exposed spur gears along one
side of each truck as seen on the U33c is another design flaw, for either
tinplate or scale operation. Multiple spur gears are noisy, even if they are
not exposed as they are on the U33c, and when they are left exposed, they tend
to accumulate anything near the layout that can jam the gears. For a train
running on temporary tracks laid out on the floor, as many toy trains would be
run, this problem is even worse.
If Lionel had been serious about marketing to both Toy Train Collectors and
Scale Modelers, all they would have had to do is look at how S Helper Service
does it, which should have been easy for them since presumably they were built
in the same factory up until the time Sanda Kan stopped producing products for
so many of the smaller American companies.
Bill in FL
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